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    Home Comment & Opinion

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    ‘Medicaid millionaire’ bought Lamborghini
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    ‘Medicaid millionaire’ bought Lamborghini
    Aug 15, 2025
    A Louisiana woman was arrested and charged with fraud last month after allegedly underreporting her income to qualify for Medicaid. The state Bureau o...
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    Today’s Gen Z doubts a sign of more to come
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Today’s Gen Z doubts a sign of more to come
    By AMIR KANPURWALA RealClearPolitics 
    Aug 15, 2025
    As states like Mississippi proceed with social media age verification laws, technology is in the crosshairs. Social media’s adverse effects are no lon...
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    Voters open to Social Security reform?
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Voters open to Social Security reform?
    Aug 14, 2025
    The Social Security Trust Fund is less than a decade away from insolvency thanks to congressional and presidential inertia. The 90-year-old retirement...
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    AI companions are harming your children
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    AI companions are harming your children
    By ANNIE CHESTNUT TUTOR and AUTUMN DORSEY 
    Aug 14, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Right now, something in your home may be talking to your child about sex, self-harm, and suicide. That something isn’t a person — i...
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    How to deal with the trolls
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    How to deal with the trolls
    By DAVID MILLS Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Aug 14, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The poor guy got slapped around pretty badly, for the mistake of having an opinion some of his readers didn’t like. He got it in th...
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    Tariffs inspire bad arguments
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Tariffs inspire bad arguments
    Aug 13, 2025
    “We call a tariff a protective measure. It does protect; it protects the consumer very well against one thing. It protects the consumer against low pr...
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    Delays, cost overruns in transit projects
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Delays, cost overruns in transit projects
    Aug 13, 2025
    A new report from Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) identified 13 federally funded construction projects that are collectively $163 billion over budget and up to...
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    The 401(k) needs better guardrails
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    The 401(k) needs better guardrails
    Aug 13, 2025
    Tax-advantaged employer-sponsored retirement savings accounts hit a milestone not long ago: At least half of all private sector U.S. workers now parti...
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    Red or blue: AI is coming for you
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Red or blue: AI is coming for you
    By ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBUS RealClearPennsylvania 
    Aug 13, 2025
    Is artificial intelligence coming for your job? It may depend on who you voted for in the 2024 presidential election. If you voted for Donald Trump, y...
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    Tax dollars at work: EV charger debacle
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    Tax dollars at work: EV charger debacle
    Aug 12, 2025
    There are about 160,000 gas stations in the United States, the vast majority of them built and run through the private sector to maximize efficiency a...
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    The Mamdani effect for Democrats
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    The Mamdani effect for Democrats
    By J.T. YOUNG RealClearPolitics 
    Aug 12, 2025
    For the last 10 years, it’s been difficult for Democrats to win elections unless the campaigns center on Donald Trump. But the arrival of Zohran Mamda...
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    Disney settling with Carano isn’t capitulation, firing her was
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Disney settling with Carano isn’t capitulation, firing her was
    By MARY McNAMARA Los Angeles Times 
    Aug 12, 2025
    LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Actress Gina Carano, Lucasfilm and its parent company Walt Disney Co. have settled the federal lawsuit filed in which Carano claim...
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    Jump in colon cancer cases could actually be hopeful
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Jump in colon cancer cases could actually be hopeful
    By LISA JARVIS Bloomberg Opinion 
    Aug 11, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — New data shows a rise in colon cancer among adults ages 45-49. That’s wonderful news. Celebrating an increase in cancer rates might s...
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    Other Voices: GOP hypocrisy on presidential power
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Other Voices: GOP hypocrisy on presidential power
    Aug 11, 2025
    Republican leaders have, over the years, repeatedly condemned the expansion of presidential power: Barry Goldwater criticized the expansion of preside...
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    Pa. doesn’t need to spend $200 million on horse racing
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Pa. doesn’t need to spend $200 million on horse racing
    Aug 11, 2025
    As the Pennsylvania state budget impasse drags on, with essential funding for public transit a main sticking point, some of the unusual ways the Commo...
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    Healthy living helps the aging brain
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Healthy living helps the aging brain
    By LISA JARVIS Bloomberg Opinion 
    Aug 08, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association makes a compelling case that a healthy lifestyle does an agi...
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    There’s still no Pa. state budget
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    There’s still no Pa. state budget
    Aug 08, 2025
    Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman sent an email recently to Senate Republicans telling the caucus that they would return "no sooner than...
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    Gerrymandering and high comedy
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Gerrymandering and high comedy
    Aug 07, 2025
    Democratic lawmakers in Texas got the desired media attention this week after fleeing the state in an attempt to slow Republican redistricting efforts...
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    Improper Covid grants ignored
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Improper Covid grants ignored
    Aug 07, 2025
    The Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators grant program made $544 million of improper payments during the Covid-19 pandemic, but t...
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    Smoky air shouldn’t be permanent hallmark of summer
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Smoky air shouldn’t be permanent hallmark of summer
    Aug 07, 2025
    We’re more than two-thirds of the way through meteorological summer, and so far when the weather hasn’t been suffocatingly hot and humid, in the Midwe...
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    Brother’s many good deeds get punished by his sisters
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    Brother’s many good deeds get punished by his sisters
    August 17, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I am a 67-year-old man who has two sisters. Recently, I was at my younger sister "Mitzi's" house, installing some blinds. While there, I re...
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    As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame
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    As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame
    States feel pressure to act
    By MARC LEVY Associated Press 
    August 16, 2025
    HARRISBURG (AP) — Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feedin...
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    ‘Round the Square: Back-to-school safety
    Round the Square
    ‘Round the Square: Back-to-school safety
    August 16, 2025
    TOO SOON: We're sure children think this message from the American Red Cross of Greater Pennsylvania is coming along too soon: It's time for "Back to ...
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    Try these tools out in the kitchen
    Lifestyles
    Try these tools out in the kitchen
    August 16, 2025
    Dear Heloise: Due to my wife's health, after 68 years, I am now the cook. I find that the most helpful tools for me are pliers, scissors and screwdriv...
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    Woman wishes to acknowledge kindness after tragic loss
    Lifestyles
    Woman wishes to acknowledge kindness after tragic loss
    August 16, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: Four months ago, my 15-year-old oldest child was killed in a car accident. It has been really hard. My husband and I are doing our best to ...
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    Bucks’ late summer behavioral shift
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    Bucks’ late summer behavioral shift
    By STEVE SHERK Jr.  Special to The Era  
    August 16, 2025
    Several major changes will happen within all bucks before summer ends. Their behavior will change along with their feeding and bedding patterns. The b...
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